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- From: dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)
- Newsgroups: soc.motss
- Subject: Re: Surly French waiters
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.191235.7214@spdcc.com>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 19:12:35 GMT
- Article-I.D.: spdcc.1992Nov23.191235.7214
- References: <michaelh.722202225@Xenon.Stanford.EDU> <nosenseofirony@kaa.gr.osf.org> <1992Nov21.212619.29280@microsoft.com>
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- In article <1992Nov21.212619.29280@microsoft.com> frankm@microsoft.com (Frank R.A.J. Maloney) writes:
- >>[Melman calls French surly.]
- >>So Frenchmen are naturally surly, are they? Well I suppose it might
- >>seem that way to Americans, stupid and vulgar as they are.
- >>
- >I must say I am disappointed in Eamonn for succumbing to the
- >very natural urge to say something nasty to the m-person by
- >heaping calumny on the other 300 million of us. I know I am
- >neither stupid nor vulgar, and and I am an American.
-
- I'd tend to agree about you, from most of what you write, but this article
- of yours isn't helping.
-
- >I, for one, would appreciate it if Eamonn could sharpen his
- >aim a trifle the next time he wishes to get off a potshot.
- >And include me, and those like me, out.
-
- Hmmm, one of the "let's take as literal-minded a reading as we can"
- school, and to hell with an appreciation of rhetoric and the use of
- turning-the-tables as a way to illustrate the absurdity of the original
- claim. How disappointing...
-
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- Steve Dyer
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